With the era of
dam building coming to an end in much of the developed world, places such as California and Australia are turning to local and less expensive methods to deal with water scarcity, including recycling wastewater, capturing stormwater, and recharging aquifers.
Not exact matches
Building dams in the Amazon also
comes at the cost of endangering biodiversity and indigenous livelihoods.
They
came in droves, supported by infrastructure the federal government
built — including the Hoover
Dam — and the water those facilities helped supply.
Our pancreas will not
build the
dam wall higher than it needs to be to hold back the energy
coming into our system!
Incrementally, how many fewer
dams would you
build if all power
came from other sources, so long as those needs remain?
The focus on hydropower in the
coming years must not be on
building new
dams, but instead on maximizing efficiency, responsible operation, and environmental performance.
Right now my electricity
comes 100 % from hydro and I only have to pay monthly for what I use, I didn't have to pay to
build the
dam.